The Internet Goes Black to Stop SOPA and Censorship

At around 10am EST I got a taste of what Internet censorship must look like. While researching an article using one of my favorite free sites, Wikipedia, it went black on me and showed this message:

At first I panicked: “oh no! I broke Wikipedia!”

Then I remembered that today, January 18, 2012, many websites are “blacking out” in protest of the Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) that is going around Congress this week. This video explains what SOPA is all about:

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